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on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:12PM
from the wait'll-the-hippies-learn-it's-nuclear dept.

mysqlbytes writes "The BBC is reporting the National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Livermore in California, has succeeded in breaking even — 'During an experiment in late September, the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel — the first time this had been achieved at any fusion facility in the world.'"

define facility, because fusion is known to release energy with great facility.

Here [wikipedia.org] is a picture that looks to me very much like a facility.

It achieved a net fusion output about 100X as much as the energy input. (This facility did have the drawback that it was vaporized within a few microseconds after startup, but that's just a cooling issue.)

>They are clearly biased, superficial, and quality is clearly not a goal.

News for clowns by clowns. To make sure that clowns are elected to our legislature, to threaten the world economy by screwing with the dollar and the US credit rating, of which bonds are used as backing for other securities.

Because on party can't un-twist its panties about healthcare.

Warning: Begin rant:

The instant that mortgage-backed-securities were no longer AAA "same as cash" rated, Bear Stearns disappeared in a sea of red ink and the rest of the economy with it, affecting banks worldwide that used these "cash equivalents". The US defaulting on its debt is like that but worse. Threatening to tank our economy like that would be an act of war if it was done by a foreign country. And it will take Brazil's with it.